Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.